Sunday, August 26, 2012

How to Disable Screen Animations in Android 4.1

Without any rooting or tinkering, it is easy to make your Android phone/tablet get amazing boost in performance and screen transitions by disabling animations. If your nexus 7 feels tardy and has any touchscreen problems, try the following tip to make transition between apps, tasks instantly. This works on both of Android 4.0 Ice cream sandwich and 4.1 jelly bean.

How to Disable Screen Animations in Android
* Navigate to "Settings", and tap on "Developer Options".
* Scroll down and you will see the "Window animation scale" and "Transition animation scale" options.
* Tap on each of the settings and check "Animation off".

After turned them off, I am having less touchscreen problems with N7 so far.